WZHF

WZHF is a Regional Mexican-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Capitol Heights, Maryland, serving the Washington, D.C. area.^[7] It is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting^[8] and operated by RM Broadcasting.

The station went on air on April 7, 1947 as WEAM, licensed to Arlington, Virginia and founded by J. Maynard Magruder. Throughout its history, WZHF has had a variety of formats including top 40, rock, R&B, big band, country, and health. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the station broadcast local college basketball games from American University, Georgetown, and George Washington. In 1984, WEAM was purchased by Viacom, became WMZQ, and changed to a classic country format. WMZQ was later a full simulcast of WMZQ-FM, its sister station that played contemporary country music, from 1987 to 1996. The WMZQ stations were among the most popular in the Washington area in the late 1980s and 1990s; they topped local ratings in 1988, 1992, and 1995. In 1996, WMZQ changed its call sign to the present WZHF and its format to health and fitness programming.

Beginning in 1999, WZHF had a variety of ethnic formats, with programming primarily in Spanish and various Asian languages. Multicultural Broadcasting bought WZHF in 2000. In 2011, WZHF began broadcasting English-language Voice of Russia programming. After resuming a Spanish-language format around 2015, WZHF began broadcasting Radio Sputnik, the successor of Voice of Russia, in November 2017. The station gained notoriety during this time due to Radio Sputnik's status as an official broadcaster of the Russian government; program broker RM Broadcasting was required to register with the U.S. government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 2019. Sanctions on the Russian government forced the winding-up of Radio Sputnik's U.S.-based operations in 2024.